PSI-Plot is not the operating system; Wine was meant to let us use misguided
applications, some developed long ago (like PSI-Plot, which I first used as
an
inexpensive alternative to MathCAD with DOS 6.22). I have not yet found an
alternative plotting program, and PSI-Plot lets me produce professional grade
graphical representations of data, with proper line widths, readable
lettering,
and the like.
At the time, I was an independent consultant working in a tiny business ...
and
the fellow who developed PSI-Plot was also a small businessman who worked
over
about the same period, eking out a living. Neither one of us could afford
either
the time or spare cash for anything else. His product was proprietary in the
sense
that it depended on the Microsoft operating system of the day; I needed his
product
to prepare my results to my clients. No apologies.
In the meantime, I found a workaround: I copy and paste a column of cells at
a
tine from LibreOffice Calc into the PSI-Plot spreadsheet opened with Wine,
and
that approach lets me produce the needed graphical representations of my
data.
I brought this up in the Trisquel forum because the Wine-assisted PSI-Plot
that I was using before Flidas came along worked passably well with the only
restriction that I must not sort on more than one column of a 50MB
spreadsheet.
That is now impossible. Could it be that the subsequent updates of Belanos
have
produced an interference with Wine/PSI-Plot ? We may never solve that
problem.
George Langford
